Stuffed and Starved - Couverture souple

Patel, Raj

 
9781846270116: Stuffed and Starved
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1846270111 ISBN 13 : 9781846270116
Editeur : Portobello Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities the world over have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. "Stuffed and Starved" takes a long and wide view of food production, to show how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe. This is also the story of the fight against the unthinking commerce that brings it to us. In the wrecked paddy fields of India, in the soy deserts of Brazil, in the maize ejidos of Mexico, the supermarket aisles of California, French McDonald's and Italian kitchens, there's a worldwide resistance against unhealthy control of the food system.

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À propos de l?auteur

RAJ PATEL was educated at Oxford, the LSE, and Cornell. A former fellow at Yale and Berkeley, he is now at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN, and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against his former employers. He is one of only a few activists trusted to work with the Via Campesina peasant movement. This is his first book. www.stuffedandstarved.org

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Éditeur
Portobello Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1846270111
ISBN 13 
9781846270116
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
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